Set It and Forget It: How Better Contraception Could Be a Key to Reducing Poverty

Delaware has a new statewide program to ask women of childbearing age if they are planning on getting pregnant in the next year during a primary care visit and to discuss birth control options if the answer is no. The goal of these discussions is to decrease the amount of unintended pregnancies and as a result increase women’s body autonomy and decrease medical spending.

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